Featured Spanish(?) Solid 900 Silver Plate

Picked this up at the flea-market today from a chap I know who was selling off cheap silverware. It's marked "Hecho a Mano" on the base ("handmade"), and next to it, is '900' in a circle, for 90% silver.

Not sure if this is Spanish or Mexican. My buddy tends to collect and deal in European silver, so I suspect more Spanish.



It measures just under 8 inches from side to side.

Here it is with my child's sterling silver cutlery set from the 1890s:



Close-up of the marks:

 

Spain usually has assay and town marks, and often maker's marks as well.As fars as I know, there always has to be some official mark, 900 in a circle is not one of the official Spanish marks.
Could be South American. Or the Philippines maybe?

 

Well somewhere where Spanish is a language, because the other 'mark' is in Spanish. If not Spain, I assumed Mexico or south America.

 

Not your usual Mexican mark. Don't know anything about Philipino silver marks, but it could be Chile.

 

I'd say not Spanish - it would have proper marks and also probably say Plata de Ley. I've had silver from Peru with similar marks.

 

It wouldn't say Plata de Ley if the item is 900, only if it is 925. But nothing about the mark says Spain to me. Or Mexico.
I agree, much further south, South America.

 

It’s Chilean, same marks that you see on Dittrich & Silberfeld items.

 

Chilean huh?? That's a long way from home!!

Thanks

 

"Hecho a Mano" is spanish for handmade .